• Watching – Ransom (TV)

    Watching – Ransom (TV)

    Ransom (2017-2019) may not be the best of shows, but it checked all the boxes I often look for in terms of mystery television. The inciting crisis, the investigation, the inevitable twist, a tense confrontation, and the conclusion of the case that will often connect to one of the main cast or the season arc.… Read more

  • Playing – Power Hungry Pets / Love Letter

    Playing – Power Hungry Pets / Love Letter

    Back around 2014, I picked up a quick social deduction / logic card game by the name of Love Letter. It’s been reskinned a bunch of times (Munchkin Loot Letter, Letters to Santa, Batman, and more with varying degrees of changes made to the cards like Marvel Infinity Gauntlet Love Letter, Lovecraft Letter, Star Wars… Read more

  • Reading – Thief of Thieves & Parker

    Reading – Thief of Thieves & Parker

    Comic creator Robert Kirkman seems to have now small amount of magic in what he does. He’s the name behind The Walking Dead (zombie survival horror) and Invincible (super heroes) and numerous other indie titles like Outcast (supernatural horror), Oblivion Song (science fiction), and Fire Power (martial arts – side note, when the first issue… Read more

  • Reading – Pirate Latitudes

    Reading – Pirate Latitudes

    I started reading Michael Crichton back in High School and really enjoyed the snappy action and smart science fiction elements in The Andromeda Strain and Congo though I was growing dissatisfied with the endings being so abrupt, bordering on deux ex machina (I’m looking at you Sphere) but I did keep reading several of his… Read more

  • Playing – Shadow Borg ??? Homebrew

    Playing – Shadow Borg ??? Homebrew

    I have the good fortune to have a brother who games. In grade school, he designed a game inspired by Talisman for a school project to explain a concept. As a parent, he continues to game with his kids. When I go to visit them, it’s a board game marathon of games new and old,… Read more

  • Playing – Jaws of the Lion (Gloomhaven)

    Playing – Jaws of the Lion (Gloomhaven)

    I was originally slow to the Gloomhaven party (for reasons) but my regular gaming table has been playing it for some time now. Currently, we’re working our way through Frosthaven using some suggested rules for adding a 5th player (increase base difficulty by two, keep the rewards at the usual for the base difficulty). This… Read more

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